The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the son of an Odisha’s leading businessman, a day after they took into custody a Senior Engineer working at the Paradip Port Authority in Jagatsinghpur district and three others in connection with aRs 25-lakh bribery case.
An official of the Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL), the biggest cargo company operating in Odisha, was arrested after he was named as one of the accused in the bribery case.
As a major Stevedoring agent, OSL looks after the unloading of cargo such as iron ore, coal and steel and has a near monopoly on the stevedoring operations at the Paradip port, the second biggest port in India in cargo traffic handling.
CBI officials have arrested the port’s official and three others, including a middleman, over the engineer allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25 lakh to help OSL get undue benefit from the
damage of a conveyor belt in the port.
